Reading Notes: Shiva's Secret Part 1

• Kali- primal goddess
• dances on Shiva- Shiva does not care for the world and he is indifferent toward Kali
• Kali wants Shiva to open eyes 
• they are opposites
• Shiva needs to populate with Kali so she forces him to "create life within her"
• Two images show angry Kali and content Kali
• God takes inferior position to Goddess 

(Kali dancing on Shiva, trying to get his attention.  Found on Wikipedia.)

Bibliography:

Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art, Devdutt Pattanaik, Shiva's Secret Part 1

Reading Notes: Shiva's Secret Part 2

Looking at Shiva's side of the love story between him and Parvati.  It is the same story but told in a different way and with a different perspective.  There is an added element that was not in the stories I read last week.

• Parvati induced shiva to become belovolant
• Groom: was a hermit and didn't know how to behave or dress
• drunk
• covered in ash
• came with ghosts and goblins
• scared the people of Parvati's village
• Parvati asked him to accept worldly ways so he did and became a beautiful groom
• Shiva did not discriminate between the beautiful and the ugly but didn't fit in with the social set up: there is judgement and Shiva didn't have any
• His eyes were opened because of Parvati

(the religious poster that is explained through the video I watched this week.  Found on Wikipedia Commons.)

Bibliography:

Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art, Devdutt Pattanaik, Shiva's Secret Part 2